vmware ??

Bruce Cowan linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:34:18 -0700


Mark Kennedy wrote:
>i'm running RH6.0 and vwmare v1.0.1 on a 770Z w/320M.  i'm running NT SP3
under
>vmware, giving it 64M.  i originally tried using a native NT partition that
was
>already on the laptop, but the vmware support for native partitions is
buggy and
>it kept complaining about disk writes outside the range of the partition.
...

I would echo what Mark says about VMWare support for native partitions. It
basically doesn't work on a ThinkPad 770X (what I have), either under VMWare
for Linux or VMWare for NT. I suspect the issue is that the IDE controller
on the ThinkPad is not quite "standard" and so things go awry.

-Bruce